Lancaster Bomber To Be Preserved

Cross-country effort underway to preserve a vintage plane that flew missions during the Second World War

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[timhancock]

Lancasters were also made at the Avro shadow factory at Yeadon (Leeds/Bradford) airport. The building still exists. Good luck with your preservation efforts. The Canadians were based locally in various locations in North Yorkshire and we do not forget them or their sacrifice.

[janetkent]

How lovely, the Lancaster is a great aircraft

[markorollo.]

I live in Chadderton, Oldham, UK, there is a factory no more than a mile away from my house where something like 40% of Lancaster's were built.

[michaelnaisbitt]

Every Lancaster deserves to be preserved to airworthiness or static display under cover from the weather. This plane looks relatively intact and needs to be saved

[davidgillettuk]

Great news, well done folks. With only 17 airframes left in the world each one counts.

[BetterAircraftFabric]

Great News! Hopefully they can find some good volunteers to help work on it as well ! Regards from Alaska !

[vikingblood]

It's being restored in Trenton, Ontario.

[simonframpton]

Go for it, just Jane should be flying soon in UK and Canada could have 2 for air shows as well

[isteve]

Rebuild her she make the hair on your neck stand up when you hear her flying and also to remember the crews that flew her in world war 2 from Canada 🇨🇦🇬🇧

[PartTimeBritishGuy]

This video was done 9 years ago, I wonder how they got along!

[michelleroberts]

There's one of these magnificent planes in the motat museum in Auckland NZ. It was donated to the Rnzaf air crew by the French government as a thank you therefore should be in the RNZAF museum in Christchurch .it needs to be moved also.

[Jooeffoh]

"Your flight lunch was now frozen baloney sandwiches" Made me laugh out loud.
Good that they are restoring the old girl. They should re-equip her with all the turret guns, just as it originally was.
Edit: I see they did. Great job guys!

[charliepearson]

the Lancaster is made by a British manufacturer called Avro this is why its called the Avro Lancaster Mk 1

[jjt]

Christ if I won a couple mill in the lottery, I ll pay for it to be airworthy

[duggiebader]

My relative flew in a Mk 3. Packard Merlins.

[mrdfac]

I want to visit Canada. For some reason, I am drawn to Canadians. Respect.

[michaelnaisbitt]

I think I speak for all aviation nuts this and every other of the 17 airframes must be saved the ones that are in the open should be under cover there is one in West Australia in similar condition these aircraft are too important to let rust away and Canada could do with a 2nd restored example Go Canada

[arricammarques]

Our priorities are in reverse of respecting history.